I remember having this problem. You need to pass the '-i' switch.
Try: '-B 1024 -i'
I don't know if this behavior is an error or not.
Poul L. Christiansen
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Vilson farias wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> There are a very weird problem here.
>
> I changed my /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql. The postmaster line now is :
> su -l postgres -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -o '-B 1024' -D $PGDATA -p
> /usr/bin/postmaster start >/dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null
>
> That mean now are 8Mb (1024 buffers of 8Kb) available for postgres
> processes. Ok, but if I set this '-B 1024' all my non-local connections
> don't work. Then, If I simply remove this -B statement everything work
> again. Besides, there are lots of -B configurations simply dont work here,
> like -B 2048, -B 4096... when I try to call /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgressql
> start, it checks installation (ok), but postmaster fails.
>
> Do you know why this is happening?
>
> I'm using RedHat 6.2, AMD K6 400, 256Mb RAM with Postgre 7.0.2.
> and a Pentium 75, 32Mb RAM, RedHat 6.2 with Postgre 7.0.3 and both has the
> same problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> José Vilson de Mello de Farias
>
>
>
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